headcanon: when Nell was born, it was her familyâs tradition that the stars be read. Nisa took Nell to the covenâs diviners. The prettiest, smartest l,and nicest of them that gave the best information was named âHannahâ.
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@nelllraiser
headcanon: when Nell was born, it was her familyâs tradition that the stars be read. Nisa took Nell to the covenâs diviners. The prettiest, smartest l,and nicest of them that gave the best information was named âHannahâ.
[pm] I donât even know where to begin to thank you, because it feels so insufficient butâthank you, Nell. You, and everyone there, I owe you everything and more. How are you fairing?
[pm] Don't be silly- you don't have anything to thank me for. I'm just glad you're back and that you're okay. How am I fairing? How are you fairing?
Someone left a half eaten bag of Takis at the library yesterday. Was it you in disguise, or is this the universes way of trying to get me to message you?
It's about time the universe got my message to you. I even paid for expedited shipping and it took this long
[pm] I nearly have all the ingredients. Gonna be getting the elder skin soon. Hopefully. Weâll have to see how the trip goes.
[pm] Where are you getting elder skin?
fermataheartâ:
theyâre bad, actually. iâm terrible at being mean. donât invite me anywhere ever again.
Silas how are you going to keep up your street cred? :/
exleviathanâ:
Long stories cost a couple drinks.
Fair play. You do this for a living?
Sure, why not? I assume everyone else thatâs still sticking around must agree, otherwise⊠why the fuck would they be here? Donât try to paint me as the weirdo, Iâve only been here a few months.
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Alright then meet me at Dellâs Tavern. Itâs so nice of you to offer to buy the drinks (:
Expose people for a living? Why yes- yes I do.Â
Well generally people arenât interested in being potentially murdered
shroomsbysolomonâ:
[ pm ] Thank you for the help. It was quite satisfying.
Atli is my cĂč-sĂŹth companion, though I have not seen him for a time.
[pm] Any time haha. You didnât happen to get a picture of his reaction or anything, right? Also did the favor thing work or You know what giving me a favor means, right?
Oh! Cute! I actually have a few supernatural dogs he might have fun playing with! Is he...lost? Did you need help finding him?
Search & Rescue | Marley, Nell, Emilio, Clay, Erin
TIMING: Current PARTIES: @detectivedreameater @nelllraiser @clayanddust @monstersfear + spellcaster npcs LOCATION: Abandoned warehouse outside of Bangor SUMMARY: Marley and Nell recruit Clay and Emilio on a search and rescue mission in hopes to bring Erin home. CONTENT WARNINGS: Gun use, medical blood tw
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[pm] No, it's not about Taki. I've been told apparently this demon's name is Jan, and it is just a demon who chooses to look like a cat and she causes bad luck. Really bad luck. I have, yeah. Hence the bad luck.
[pm] Who told you itâs name was Jan? Is it still bothering you? When did this start?Â
wickedmiloâ:.
[pm] Thatâs depressing
[pm] I donât know why youâre surprised
[pm] I already told you Iâm not answering them
[pm] Gross
[pm] Donât put those images in my head
[pm] It sure is
Iâm just starting to think you donât know how questions work. Generally, youâre supposed to answer them.Â
Oh, so youâre thinking of my massive dong? ;))))
save a horse, ride a werewolf | kitty & nell
TIMING: about a month and a half ago. LOCATION: the vural home. PARTIES: @kallmekittyâ & @nelllraiser. SUMMARY: nell catches a kitty in her greenhouse net. CONTAINS: nsfw (implication of sex) and symptoms of undiagnosed ptsd.
Kitty had woken up in a lot of real weird positions, but this one took the cake. Dangling upside down in the pale morning light, naked as the day she was born. She couldnât remember the night before, which meant either sheâd drank too much or sheâd gone all Incredible Wolf. Either case led to a blackout. The nakedness probably meant that sheâd shifted, though, Kitty wasnât one to assume. It mightâve just been a really fun night. Whatever the case, though, she was hanging upside down in front of a building that smelled strongly of plants. Glass building, warm, humid smells, plants. A greenhouse. Kitty was hanging from⊠something in front of a greenhouse.
Hearing something walk towards her, Kitty turned her head, the motion causing her body to start spinning slowly. As she moved, she saw a large cat, an ovinnik, walking towards her. âWell, hi there, cutie. I donât sâpose youâd mind helping a gal out, huh? Iâd really like to not be hanginâ up here.â
As always, Nell woke with a start when the familiar ping of the perimeter spell buzzed against her skin, signaling that someone new had stepped onto the property. Somewhere between her Aram induced sleep and her waking, sheâd gripped the knife that lay under her pillow in a white-knuckled hold, perhaps a little too ready for any attack that might be coming her way. With a frown she noted Takiâs absence from the foot of her bed, and followed their magical link in hopes that heâd already apprehended whoever had thought it was a good idea to cross into witchâs territory unwelcomed.Â
The spectacle of an unclothed woman hanging from one of Nellâs many booby traps was annoying enough, but the way Taki had begun to bat at the net and dangling trespasser stoked a smidgen of Nellâs amusement. He raised himself onto his hind legs, paw extended as he spun the net and swished his tail happily. When his witch approached, he gave her a prideful look, as if heâd done well finding a new toy for himself. Nell wanted to smile, but it was best to greet strangers with a careful aloofness until she knew their intentions. âSo it looks like my booby traps really are good at catching boobies.â Okay- maybe not too aloof when the girl was hanging there uselessly. Still, she crossed her arms over her chest in a guarded motion, knife still in hand.
âHey, bud, watch it. Iâm not a goddamn cat toy. Ovinnik toy. Sorry.â Kitty was in the process of continuing talking to the ovinnik when she saw someone walking up. And that made sense, didnât it? Ovinnikâs were real popular familiars, and where there was a familiar, there was likely a witch. Kitty laughed at the other womanâs words, even if she could make out a stoic expression when her net was turned in that direction. âYou caught me real good, yeah. Definitely a boobies trap, yâknow, since you caught two of âem.â Kitty was a casual flirt, the words lighthearted and easy even as she took in the knife in the other womanâs hand. It was easier to catch flies with honey, sheâd always been taught, and, well, no sense in pissing off the person with the knife. She couldnât smell any silver, but that didnât mean it wouldnât hurt like a bitch, especially if she was getting poked like a fish in a barrel. âYou wouldnât mind letting me down, would you?â
Nell watched curiously as Taki continued to play with the woman in the net, rather delighted with his newest find despite the other girlâs words. âTwoâs definitely always better than one.â She bit back her next words for a brief second, trying to figure out whether or not this was the time for flirtation. Though...moments being inappropriate for teasing had never stopped the witch before. âEven better than two is four,â she said with the very beginnings of a smirk, but then decided that flirting would feel more comfortable once the other woman was clothed. It felt skeevy doing it while she dangled there like a hog-tied deer. âSure- Iâll let you down. Once you tell me why youâre trying to get into my greenhouse. And why youâre here in the first place.â
âYouâre not wrong,â Kitty said, laughing. She stuck her hand out of the net, letting the ovinnik swat at her fingers. âNow, thatâs an assumption. You have no idea whether or not I was trying to get into your greenhouse. I also have no idea whether or not I was trying to get into your greenhouse. Iâm gonna be honest with you: I think I mightâve blacked out last night, had a real good or a real bad time, and somehow ended up here.â She waved her hand. One of her curls was getting in her mouth, and she brushed it out of the way. âThis wasnât intentional. I mean, Iâm pretty confident, but Iâm not a nudist. I try not to wander around without clothes on. Might make things a little awkward.âÂ
For someone caught in a net, the woman seemed rather chipper. Nell didnât know if that was an after-effect of the possibly âgood timeâ the stranger had the night before, an attempt to appear less threatening while trespassing, or if she was...simply an overly nice person. She supposed there were still nice people in the world. It just felt like itâd been months since sheâd run into someone new that was so...casual. White Crest had a way of ruining everything that stepped onto its cursed soil, and this woman was either good at bouncing back or she hadnât yet been touched by it. Nell hummed over the words of Takiâs prisoner. If she was trying to hide more nefarious intentions, sheâd chosen a pretty shitty excuse. âJust a little awkward.â She cut off another flirt, still deciding to wait until they were on more even footing. âSo whatâs your name, then? And how does one accidentally end up naked in the woods?â Sheâd come across her fair share of confused and unclothed shifters out there before, but itâd be foolish to jump to conclusions.Â
âNameâs Kitty,â she said. âIâd offer my hand, but Iâm a little caught up. Hope you understand.â She started looking up at the trap, observing it. Kitty mightâve been an animal in wolf form, but she wasnât stupid. Sheâd never been caught in a trap before. And, sometimes, when she went out into the woods in human form, she could smell metal traps hidden under leaves, meant to take out animals. Sheâd done well with herself not to get caught in things before. She couldnât smell the trap, was the thing. It didnât smell like anything at all. Honestly, if it wasnât holding her, itâd be like there was nothing there. Kittyâd lived with magic users her whole life. She knew what magic looked like if she looked for it. Between that and the ovinnik, she could make a solid assumption, but she wasnât gonna do that. Not yet. âI mean, most fun things start with getting naked, yâknow? But⊠not really sure. I definitely blacked out last night.â One way or another. She hadnât expected to shift again so soon after the full moon. That was likely how sheâd ended up in such a situation. âYouâre guess as to how I ended up in such a situation is really as good as mine.â She looked down at the ovinnik. âHeâs a hoot and a half, by the way. Thinks he treed me all on his own, huh?â
âYou know- Iâm out here trying to be a gentleman by not flirting while youâre hanging there naked, but if you start talking about having fun with clothes off-â Nellâs smirk grew wider while Taki continued to use Kitty as his giant cat toy. â-itâs gonna make it a lot harder.â Gentlemen probably didnât trap girls in the first place, and ask them questions with a knife in hand, but those were easier to brush away. âKitty?â Nell echoed, wondering how the woman had come into such a cringeworthy name. âWell- Taki seems to like you. And he generally plays harder to get.â Was she basing her opinion of someone off her familiarâs reaction? Absolutely. âOh, Iâm definitely letting him take the credit for this hunt. I mean heâs the one deciding your fate too, isnât he?â She thought a moment longer, a large part of her still telling the witch to knock the woman out, and leave her somewhere safe until she woke upâ far away from the Vuralsâ home. But she was trying to be better, wasnât she? Wasnât she? To not let the traumas of her past rule her so thoroughly? With a sigh, Nell reached up to the top of the net, sawing it through it with her knife. There was an easy release word that would have freed Kitty, but she wasnât about to use her magic that openly in front of a person sheâd just met.Â
âWell, damn. My mama tried raisinâ a lady, but, as you can see, it didnât work too well.â Flirting came a little too easily to Kitty. One of her older sisters called her a serial flirt, said that was why the whole town thought she was dating Parker. Parker. God, she missed Parker. Would she have gotten into this kind of situation if heâd been here? Probably. Heâd be hanging upside down right along with her. âThatâs my name, cutie. I mean, itâs Katherine, if you wanna get all official, but Kittyâs just fine.â She looked at the ovinnik. Taki. âTaki hereâs a real gentleman, you know. Mighty handsome, too. Iâm grateful to have my fate in his capable paws.â Then she was watching the woman cut her loose, and maybe she was showing her hand, but it was nothing for Kitty to catch herself with her hands as she fell to the ground, holding it for a moment before she moved herself to stand. âCatâs and landings, am I right?â she quipped, brushing herself off. âThanks. I really appreciate it. I⊠donât sâpose youâd have some clothes I could wear?â Kitty looked at the woman, finally realizing how short she was. Well. Anything would be better than the quite literally nothing that Kitty was currently working with.
Taking in the other girlâs height, Nell did her best to ignore the flash of resentment that reared its head. Why was nearly everyone in this shitty town taller than her? The added height meant that Kitty wouldnât fit into Nellâs clothes without looking as if she were Buddy in the movie, Elf. Bea would probably have some pieces that were long enough, though. âSure, you can have some of my sisterâs. Just donât tell her I gave them to you.â The girl was flirting again, and it was only in Nellâs nature to flirt back. âPut some clothes on, and then we can talk about me taking them off you.â She flashed the woman a smirk, in no way opposed to having some fun once Kitty had the choice of whether she was clothed or not.
âIâm Nellâ Penelope if you wanna get official.â The witch mirrored Kittyâs words in a tone laced with tease.â Her head quicked as she thought of how easily Kitty had caught herself in her fall. Good reflexes. Good reflexes, and naked on the forestâs edge. Nell tried not to look too closely at the facts for the moment, savoring the feeling of actually having a semi-normal interaction for once. âJust follow me into the house, and Iâll get you something.â She led the way over the threshold, knowing that her sisters weren't home, but also knowing that they probably wouldnât ask all too many questions anyway while leading a naked woman in. âAnd donât talk too highly of Taki- he can barely stand up straight with how big his headâs getting.â The aforementioned Ovinikk gave a yowl of disapproval, as if he knew Nell was making fun of him.
âSecretâs safe with me. I know better than to go tattling,â Kitty said, laughing at the other girlâs words. âYou want me to get dressed so we can talk about gettinâ undressed. Alright. Iâm game.â It was nice, actually, to have that considered. Kitty wasnât particularly self-conscious, even less so since sheâd been bitten, but it was nice to be thought of, for someone to make sure the playing field was even. It made things a little more fun, too. âNice to meet you, Nell. Sorry for hanging out in front of your greenhouse. I swear I donât do this kinda thing often. Not at first, at least.â She followed after Nell, looking around as she went, eyes taking in everything that she could see as her nose picked out various smells. Different people, creatures, herbs and spices and an abundance of scents that she couldnât even begin cataloguing even if she wanted to. She held out her hand to the Ovinikk, âHush. He deserves all the praise he can get.â Then, with a light tone, she added, âMy mamaâs got an axehandle hound named Eugene thatâs not nearly as sweet and loyal. Though, heâs been around awhile. Kinda an old fella.â
âFinally, someone who knows snitches get stitches,â Nell sighed with overplayed exasperation, the hint of a grin still on her lips. To be honest, she hadnât entirely been sure whether Kitty would dish back the potential offer of sex, but she could respect a woman who knew what she wanted, and didnât hesitate when it was offered. âItâs only fair, right? Otherwise I might just get bored if thereâs nothing for me to do when youâre taking my clothes off.â Again Nell reminded herself that she should be careful with Kitty. Just because she was hot didnât mean she was trustworthy. Though...if this was some sort of trick, maybe Kitty was worth it. Honestly it wouldnât be surprising for Nell to fall prey to her libido. And at least sheâd die happy. âAre you saying- if Iâm lucky that youâll hang in a net outside of my greenhouse in a couple months or so?âÂ
The smile on her lips stiffened in place while the axehandle houndâs name fell from Kittyâs lips. And to think Nell had been enjoying a relatively normal conversation. The sirens in Nellâs head began to blare for a quick moment. Her reactionary emotion had been set to âfightâ for too long, and somewhere along the way it seemed to have gotten stuck. With her nails biting into the palm of her fisted hand, Nell forced herself to replay the words in her head- to recognize that they might not point towards Kitty being a threat. The joke was gone from her voice, and the witch struggled to keep it level. âI thought there was something supernatural about you, but I wasnât sure what.â A pet axehandle hound. It didnât mean anything bad...right? âSo you know what Taki is then, obviously. What do you think I am?â Sheâd paused on her journey towards Beaâs room, suddenly unsure about bringing the stranger into her sisterâs room. For now she tossed a blanket from the couch in Kittyâs direction.Â
âThatâs a cardinal rule, darlinâ. Anyone that doesnât know thatâs in for a heap of trouble if they arenât careful,â Kitty said, smiling bright and happy at the way the interaction was going. âIâd hate for you to get bored. Be a real mood killer.â She became preoccupied with looking around the house again, thinking about how nice and comfortable it was. When was the last time Kitty was in a house? Sheâd been hanging out around motel rooms for too long. It was hard to stay somewhere when she kept right on moving, though. âSooner, even, if youâre real lucky.âÂ
Kitty blinked, though, seeing that something had changed. She just didnât know what, or how, or why. Her head cocked to the side as she looked back at Nell, confused by the tone in her voice. âIâŠâ her voice trailed off, and she laughed, the sound of it a little breathless and anxious. Something about Nell, despite her small stature, made Kitty think that she was the one in danger here despite the fact that she turned into a hulking monster on the full moon. Maybe it was the fact that sheâd been caught in a net. âI do know an Ovinikk when I see one, yes, but Iâm familiar with familiars.â Joking was good, right? That helped? âI mean, I donât wanna assume anything, but the greenhouse and the familiar and the way you kinda knew I was here, I mean, I just figured you were a spellcaster.â She grabbed the blanket and clutched it tightly, covering herself. âMy familyâs all spellcasters,â she blurted out. âNot me. I didnât get any magic, just the good looks, so I guess Iâm the real winner, huh? But I know spellcasters, and I know about magic, so thatâs it. Thatâs what I thought.âÂ
Nell did her best to keep the lighter part of their conversation intact, tried to quell the feeling of her skin standing on edge, to hold the impending dread of knowing something bad was about to happen at bay. Something was about to grab her, hurt her, hurt Taki.Â
Her nails broke skin against her hand, and the wetness of her blood drew her back for a moment, the surge of magical power that her âelementâ granted grounding her mind for a split second. Breathe. No one was being attacked. She and Taki were safe. The figurative and literal hellscapes of her past werenât here. Forcing her jaw to unclench, she did her best to put levity back into her voice. âYou break a lot of hearts with those jokes and little accent, donât you?â Nell teased, trying to ignore the ringing in her ears. And even though the words were a little forced and meant in jest, Nell also thought there was a grain of truth in them. Kitty seemed easy to like. Plus Nell had broken a few hearts herself, and should recognize the signs. Not broken them in the same way, probably. Not in the endearing and shining way Kitty seemed to have. But still.Â
Then it was Nellâs turn to cock her head in interest, and the tidal wave of words helped to pull her back into reality. Spellcasters? It wasnât surprising that anyone who had spellcaster blood instantly gained a few points in her book. After all, witches were meant to stick together. Except for when you were kicked out of your coven. An ugly voice in Nellâs head sounded the old reminder. Would Kittyâs family know of that? The news had spread wide, and the Vurals were well-known in the witch community, but maybe there was a chanceâŠÂ
Just as quickly as it had come, the tenseness in the witch seemed to melt away. âIf itâs any consolation I didnât get my familyâs traditional magic. Though itâs probably shitty of me to act like thatâs comparable to not having it at all.â Better rip off the exile band-aid sooner rather than later, though. âWhatâs your familyâs name? Mineâs the Vurals. Would I know yourâs?â As if she were extending the beginnings of a peace offering, Nell sat Taki on Kittyâs feet. âIf you like him so much- I guess youâll just have to pet him more.â
The smell of blood was immediate in drawing Kittyâs attention. The first time she smelled it after waking up changed was with it all over her. The scent of Parkerâs blood had made her both hungry and sick feeling, and, even now, the smell brought up the same feelings. A little less hunger, though, thankfully. She mustâve eaten something the night before. She could briefly remember flashes of something. Not a person kind of something. Just something. But the blood seemed to be grounding for Nell, and Kitty wondered if maybe the smaller girl wouldnât attack. âIâve been told the accentâs mighty charminâ a time or too, yeah. More and more the further north I get.â And if Kitty broke hearts, it wasnât intentional. She just wanted to have fun. It was fun that got her into all sorts of trouble. It was fun that landed her here. Maybe itâd be fun that got her out of it. Nellâs vocal quality hadnât quite gone back to they way it was when they were walking into the house, but the tightness seemed to be at least trying to leave it, and sheâd take that as a win.
Mentioning that her family were spellcasters seemed to have been the right thing to do. Kitty decided to avoid the topic that she was a little less than human, at least for the time being. âSheridan,â she said. âWeâre Sheridans, though weâre less of a coven at this point and more of just the family. Too small to be in the know of much of anything, though Mamaâs folks are still in New Orleans, and they tell us things every now and then.â She shrugged. âUs. Them. I havenât been home in awhile.â Though she talked to her mother almost everyday, sent memes to her younger brother, asked for recipes from her older siblings, she wasnât really an us anymore. There was her family, and then there was Kitty, gallivanting around the country, doing her thing, having a good time. She was having a real good time.
âIâm afraid I donât know any Vurals. Itâs a little outta touch, where we are.â She leaned down, the blanket wrapped around her and held in one hand as she used the other to pet Taki, enjoying the feeling of warm fur between her fingers. She loved animals. Some of them, prey animals especially, had adverse reactions to her, with what she was, but supernatural creatures didnât seem to mind too much. âI like him alot. Heâs a handsome fella.â She scratched under his chin. âYes, sir. Very handsome.
Nellâs shoulders settled back into place as Kitty failed to recognize her family name, and it truly spoke to just how isolated the southern spellcasters were if they didnât recognize it. But in this case it was a blessing. âFamilies are coven enough sometimes.â She knew that well after sheâd been kicked out her own, left only with her sisters and Bex. âBetter than a witch alone, anyway.â A lone witch is a dead witch. The lesson had practically been ingrained into her since birth. The fact that Kitty hadnât been home âin a whileâ spoke for itself, though Nell managed to curb her initial curiosity. Sheâd pry later. StillâŠa lone witch was a dead witch. âYou should come over for Imbolc.â It was said in a way that was more insistentence than invitation. âWe can make Brigid Crosses with my sisters and student.âÂ
Taki thrived under Kittyâs attention and compliments, more than ready to take his fill of compliments and scritches. âWell- like I said, if Taki likes you, then I guess youâre as good as in. Like you said, heâs my familiar.â Now that talk of magic was out in the open, Nell didnât bother with actually going to Beaâs closet. In the blink of an eye sheâd summoned a pair of sweats and t-shirt into her hand before offering it to Kitty. âYou can go change in the hall bathroom.â She pointed in the appropriate direction. âAnd then we can see where we go from there,â the witch finished with another flirtatious smirk, apparently more than ready to leave the moment of tension behind.Â
âWe made do,â Kitty said, easy and light, watching as Nell seemed to relax. And Kitty had been pretty relaxed herself, but this was certainly more reassuring than a tensed witch. She had no idea what Nell specialized in, but all magic could be a pretty terrible time for the other party when a tensed up witch was involved. âI didnât get to celebrate Imbolc last year,â Kitty mused, thinking about how sheâd left town around September and hadnât really been able to look back. She raised an eyebrow. âYou sure your family would be alright with an interloper? Iâm not really⊠magically inclined.â And it wasnât anything that her family had ever given her shit about, and sheâd always been allowed to participate in everything and lend a hand for rituals and celebrations, but her own magic⊠it had just never been there for Kitty. Which was why sheâd been so eager to have any kind of connection to the supernatural world. Which was why she was what she was. Which was why she was running. Everything was real cause and effect.
âMaybe I bribed him,â Kitty teased, laughing at the familiarâs actions. âLike I said, the accentâs mighty charminâ.â And if she tended to lay it on a little thick in new places, then that was her own business, no one elseâs. She grabbed the clothes when they appeared, and it was nice, to be in the presence of magic again, the way it made the air feel and smell and taste just a little bit different, indiscernible to someone that hadnât grown up with it in their life or wasnât attuned to it. âMuch appreciated,â she said, and then she let a smirk of its own work onto her face. âAnd Iâm looking forward to it.â She headed to the bathroom to change, not looking back, and if her hips swayed just a little bit more than normal, well, that was her own business, too.
Nell watched as Kitty walked away, not bothering to curb the cringe-worthy words she tossed after the other woman. âI hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave! Also Iâm allowed to catcall you since your name is Kitty.â If the non-magical witch hadnât heard it before, Nell would eat the words herself. But knowing how unoriginal and annoying most people were when trying to get into someone elseâs pantsâŠshe had no doubt Kitty had heard at least a hundred iterations of the same line.Â
When Kitty emerged from the bathroom, Nell had finally settled herself back into her role of overconfident joke-sasser. In the silence sheâd held Taki for a quick moment, taking deep breaths of his fur until the smell of blood and her paranoia had subsided into something far more manageable. And if Kitty was still willingâ Nell would have an even better distraction soon enough. But first⊠âItâs just my two sisters and me, and weâre basically the only witches my studentâs had contact with soâŠno oneâs going to be a dick about whether or not you can channel magic. Besides- being a witch is more than just magic.â Nell had learned as much when Morgan lost her powers to becoming a zombie. âAnd if anyone is being a dick about it just tell me and Iâll sort them out.â The threat wasnât veiled in the least.Â
 âSo this is the part where I offer to very innocently show you my room, and then we have a sexy pillow fight or something and then youâre naked again, but Iâm also naked this time around. And having more fun.â Nell waited at the first step towards the stairs, waiting for Kitty to decide if she still wanted to act on the words sheâd previously said.Â
Kitty grinned the entire way to the bathroom, and she was still grinning when she came out. And, yeah, all of it was cheesy and cringy and stuff that sheâd heard a million and one times before, but it was fun, too. She changed quickly, eager to get back outside, the clothes clearly not Nellâs from the way they actually fit her body reasonably well. âI appreciate that, the catcalls and the invitation to Imbolc,â she said. Sheâd like to go, if only to experience something familiar again. âSure, sure. Iâm a witch, just non-practising. Lackinâ that essential casting part of spellcasting,â she mused, light and so very easy. It had taken years, but Kitty had trained the bitterness out of her mouth, made her words so that they didnât twist into harsh, angry things. It wasnât anyoneâs fault she couldnât channel magic. Just her physiology being unable to do the thing. She laughed. âYouâre sweet, sugar, but I donât think anyone needs anything sorted on that front.â
The invitation made Kittyâs grin turn wicked, and she sauntered up to the steps beside Nell. The first step helped, but Kitty was still taller. âInnocent? Is that so?â she drawled. âYou know, all of that sounds real fun. Youâre kinda speakinâ my language.â And maybe sheâd just put clothes on to take them right back off, but it was all in the name of fun, right? Besides, this was about to even the playing field. âBut maybe,â she said, âwe should go up to your room and not talk at all.â
Nell shrugged as Kitty brushed off her implication of defense when it came to idiotic people who had nothing better to do than run their mouths and tried her best not to be any more charmed by the accent and pet names than she already was. Tried and failed. She wouldnât verbally admit that Kittyâs intended effects of her âcharming accentâ were working, even after sheâd called the woman out on it. At least she could pretend it took more than a pretty face to catch her interestâŠeven if it wasnât true. âWeâll see about that.â Even if Kitty was effortlessly alluring, she wasnât going to let the woman win over that particular point.Â
Sleeping with a woman always felt different than going after a guy or non-binary person for the witch, and it was proven by the way Nell felt herself warring with the heat that was threatening to rise into her face as she noticed Kitty still stood over her despite the added height of the step. She couldnât begin to explain it, just knew that girls were far better at slipping past certain points of her exterior than any other gender was. âYou know- I caught you outside in my net. I did the work of getting you in here. Iâm pretty sure itâs your turn to catch me. Then maybe Iâll let you have a little kiss or something as a treat.â With that the witch bounded up the stairs towards her room, sending a teasing grin over her shoulder while she ran, already planning on letting the redhead topple her into the bed and in between the sheets.
blood on the horizon | marley & nell
TIMING: before jonasâ attack on kitty. LOCATION: the morgue. PARTIES:Â @detectivedreameater & @nelllraiser. SUMMARY:Â marley and nell get to the bottom of why erinâs body doesnât match her dna. CONTAINS: sibling death, med blood, and symptoms of undiagnosed ptsd (beginning and end of triggers marked in chatzy).
Typically Nell wouldnât be the least perturbed about committing a good old breaking and entering. More than half of her bounties tended to find her in places she wasnât technically allowed to be, but that had never stopped her. Finishing the large perimeter sheâd made around the morgue, she found her way back to Marley, pushing aside the kernel of dread that was trying to lay roots in her stomach. No. She wasnât nervous about sneaking into the morgue. It was the thought of Erinâs body waiting for them inside that had the witch apprehensive. Even if Regan had found that it didnât actually belong to their ErinâŠit would still look like her. And though her night terrors often starred the deaths and bodies of her loved ones, seeing a physical representation of such a thing was far different than the dark and blurry pictures that lived in her mindâs eye.
Nell shook it off, crossing her arms when she passed on what sheâd found in a hushed tone. âI got an eye on a few of the cameras. Weâre not in their field of vision yet, but theyâll be easy enough to get rid of. Just depends on how much of them you want left by the time Iâm done. I donât really care if thereâs evidence someone broke in. Theyâre not gonna trace it back to me.â Magic was convenient that way. After all, it didnât leave fingerprints that the average precinct could trace. Sureâ a magical signature of sorts could linger and be identified by the right person, but the WCPD always seemed to have their head stuck in the sand when it came to supernatural crime. âSo basically I just need to know if you care whether theyâll be able to tell someone broke in or not. I can do it both waysâ leaving no trace just takes a little longer.â She ended the words with a shrug, picking under her nails with her thumb while she waited for the maraâs reply.
Marleyâs brain hadnât stopped churning since that first message Kavanagh sent her appeared on her phone. She had stared at it for what felt like forever, until finally responding. But she couldnât believe it. Not just because it was Kavanagh, but because it felt too good to be true. If Erin wasnât really dead, then she was out there somewhere, suffering. Probably in pain. Maybe even being tortured. Who knew. Erinyes couldnât die easily. As long as they were letting her grant wishes, then Erin could be a hostage forever. The thoughts made her stomach churn. She had to see for herself. And thatâs why they now stood outside the morgue, far enough away that outside security camera couldnât catch them. They would be able to, anyway. Marleyâs invisibility had always been one of the things about her that she hadnât minded having, it came in handy far too often.
âPreferably none,â she said to Nell finally, taking her sunglasses off and pocketing them. She wouldnât need them in there. âI may or may not have yelled at Kavanagh and told her Iâd get the information myself.â And while she disliked the Medical Examiner, she knew the woman was smarter than she looked. Maybe not socially, but context clues would be easy enough to follow here. She turned to looked at Nell. âDonât worry about me at all. I know how to slip in and out unnoticed, just do your thing.â
Nell hadnât wanted to think long over what it meant that the body wasnât Erinâs. The first flash of hope had been impossible to strike down when Marley had told her the news, but after that Nell kept a stifling grip on the candle that represented the vigil she might have held when it came to Erin possibly being alive. At this point in her life, she knew better than to hope. Continuing to ward off her more serious thoughts, she tsk-ed her tongue against the roof of her mouth, fixing Marley with a look of disapproval that was more tease than anyhting genuine. âThere you go implicating yourself again. Plus itâs just less fun when I donât get to leave a mess.â A nearly wistful sigh fell from her lips, thinking of the satisfaction she would have felt over sending the cops into a tailspin over how all the security cameras of the morgue might have inexplicably shattered at once. âBut fine. Iâm assuming you canât hide your footprints, though. Iâll let you know when the cameras are done,â she said with a nod towards the snow-blanketed ground.
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The witch tugged a fingerprick from behind her ear, poking a finger until a ruby drop of blood bubbled from her.
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âThankfully, Winstonâ you know Winston, right? They used to work at the WCPD or whatever. Theyâre a technomancer, and theyâve got tons of cool stuff that they make. Anyway, theyâve really come in clutch when it comes to giving me James Bond shit.â All the while she spoke, Nell was drawing a circle in the snow, painting it red with the tip of her finger. Runes took form, and finally she spoke a string of careful Latin over her miniature spellwork. In the blink of an eye, four boggarts had appeared in the center of her summoning circle. âAlright- you each get one of these,â she explained while distributing the tech Winston had made her, as if the little creatures could understand what she was saying. Words were far beyond their level of intellect, though the magic that bonded a summoner to their creatures was more than enough for the guinea pig-sized insectoids to know what she wanted of them. Each boggart hoarded what Nell had given them, a button-sized disc that had a suction cup on one end of it. âNow fly, my pretties.âÂ
Of courseâ boggarts couldnât fly. But what they lacked in flight, they made up for in teleportation, and the morgue was close enough for the little pests to land themselves atop the morgueâs roof. Either way, Nell wasnât going to pass up a chance to use some stereotypical witch dialogue from The Wizard of Oz. The cameras wouldnât see the boggarts because theyâd quite literally appeared out of nothing, carefully out of the camerasâ ranges while the creatures sneaked up behind the surveillance equipment. All of them were pointed outwards, towards the ground where any normal small-town criminal would have made their entrance. The roof was a large and glaring blindspot to anyone who could make a less traditional approach. Nell waited and watched as she kept an eye on her little minions, making sure they suction-cupped the tech pieces properly as she kept a mental hand on their magical leashes. From the outside, she simply looked to be staring at them intently. Only the witch could feel the magical strings that kept her and the boggarts connected, like thin, shining lines that she could tug on whenever her creatures began to get antsy.
The last boggart finished sticking on the tech, and Nell explained once again. âIt loops the last hour of the footage. I think they got the idea from National Treasure or something. So letâs go steal the fucking Declaration of Independance.â Having no doubt in Winstonâs ability and whether or not their tech would hold up, Nell made her way towards the next step of their infiltration, and the door of the morgue.Â
Marley rolled her eyes. âCould if I wanted to,â she grumbled, but she had never really thought about whether her incorporeal form left footprints behind. That was probably something other mara were taught, but she had never really needed to know that answer. Maybe sheâd test it out later. âYou could always leave a note, maybe even scribble a little winky face on it for the good doctor. Iâm sure thatâll drive her up the wall, wondering who sent it.â A little smile came to her face at the thought and Marley stepped back as Nell started her magic. The blood pooled red at the tip of her fingers and Marley watched intently as she drew lines with it in the snow and summoned some boggarts. Disturbing little creatures, but they were good at getting around places. Teleportation was like that, after all.
âYeah, I knew the kid,â she answered, hands in pockets as she watched the boggarts get to work, and the strange trance like state Nell seemed to be in as she watched her summons go about their task. She kicked at a pile of snow until Nell spoke up again. âYou know they got like, actual regular technology like that, too, right? Ainât gotta be magic.â Marley rolled her eyes. âTechnically, weâre not stealing anything. So donât take anything,â she said, waving a finger at her. âAre we good to go in or what?â
âIâm sure you could,â Nell snarked back, not actually caring whether the mara had the ability to or not. It was just always far too much fun to poke fun at the police officer. âI dunno, sheâs so weird lately I donât even know if I should really bother.â Ever since Regan had disappeared into that cabin in the forest sheâd acted so strangely- or stranger than usual. It was still strange to talk about Winston in the past tense when it came to White Crest. Nell still kept in regular touch with her childhood neighbor and best friend, but it was as if a piece of the town was missing without them. Still, she couldnât help but be grateful that White Crest couldnât get its claws in them outside of town lines. âTheyâd got regular technology to do a lot of things that magic can do,â Nell said with a shrug. âWinston combines tech and magic. And magic is more reliable and faster. And Iâm a witch. Me not using magic for shit like this would be like you not going invisible or whatever.â
At the door, Nell used another bit of spoken magic to do away with any alarm that might be in play, laughing a little at how straightforward it was to sneak into a place as mundane as this. Next came the actual lock, and another sigil drawn in blood that was paired with an activation word had it clicking out of place. âI was only going to take one toe,â she joked before stepping into the darkness of the morgue, her voice growing quieter inside the building.
âAlright, alright, I get your point,â Marley said with a dismissive wave. She didnât really care to comment on Kavanagh acting strangelyâ the Medical Examiner had always been strange and foolish to Marley, denying the supernatural when she herself was one. She strode up behind Nell towards the building and watched as she did some more magic. It wouldâve been easy enough, at this point, for Marley to disappear into the building without the aid of magic, but sheâd asked Nell along for a reason. She needed a witness. She couldnât be the only one to look at the body. She couldnât be the only one to have to see Erin dead again. Swallowing, she followed Nell inside, instinctively turning intangible. âJust one? Thatâs no fun.â
She waved Nell over to follow her as she trekked down the hall that led to the stairs for the morgue. The building was completely dark, save for the emergency lights that always stayed on at night, lining the floor with a strange blue tint. Marleyâs footsteps made no noise as the two walked along, but Nellâs were soft and barely there. Enough to make Maley tense as she listened for anything else. âThink weâre all clear,â she said back to her, âmorgueâs just up ahead.â
Nell was far too busy slipping into her jokester persona to remember that sheâd be seeing what looked to be Erinâs body soon enough, and that her head wouldnât be attached to it. It was why sheâd started the air of nonchalance in the first place, but perhaps sheâd taken it too far, gotten lost among all her light-heartedness to rightly prepare herself for what was going to come out of those shiny and square doors that lined the walls of the morgue. It was the sterility of the place that finally made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on edge, the endless stainless steel reminding her of Erinâs own mortuary in the funeral home.
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 The place where Erin had let her sit with Beaâs body. Sheâd barely even known Erin then, had banked on Nicâs connection to the woman and the funeral directorâs good heart to house the body of Nellâs older sister while she did the best to pick up the pieces. And Erin had done it. Sheâd taken one look at Nellâs tear and bloodstained face and held the body with barely any questions, had gone so far as to comfort Nell in the aftermath of it all, and even sewn Bea back together before the resurrection. And that was a debt Nell would be paying back for the rest of her life. But it wasnât just the favors between her and the fury that had Nell on a warpath for the womanâ it was the fact that somewhere along the way Erin had become near-family. And Nell would do anything for those she considered family.
Glancing towards the computer in the room, Nell sidled over to it, tapping the keys awake. âSo how do we find the rightâŠlocker?â She wasnât sure what to call the little holes the dead resided within. âIs it stored in this?â Aimlessly she began to click through the varied programs and documents after sheâd used more of Winstonâs magic to hack past the passwords in the blink of an eye.Â
âTheyâre just called drawers,â Marley corrected, âyou really donât know much about this stuff, huh?â Not that she had expected the girl to. Nell was a crafter of magic, not violence. Not death and fear and blood. Even Marleyâs profession was messy. Being a detective was never clean work. It was dirty and so was she, with the blood of everyone sheâd put down. âThere should be a list somewhere of which body is stored where,â she said, coming up to the computer. âCan you techno-whiz friend get us into this computer? Knowing Kavanagh, itâs locked behind at least five passwords.â She glanced around the room, to the wall of bodies hidden behind metal doors. They could check every locker and every body, but Marley had a feeling Nell wasnât exactly in the mood for that. âDonât think sheâs dumb enough to write it down and leave it somewhere, unfortunately,â she grumbled, moving about the lab and looking for anything that might have a clue on it.
Nell gave Marley a simple shrug before answering. Sheâd seen plenty of death in her day, and bathed in more blood than she could even begin to quantify, but the legal side of dead bodies wasnât a world sheâd often entered. âIf I put a body in here thatâd mean I didnât do my job very well.â Now that she thought about itâŠdid Marley even know that she was a supernatural bounty hunter? Or that she was far more hands-on with her other activities than she was when breaking out of holding cells and identifying demons the mara had witnessed? âI donât leave traces,â she continued nonchalantly, as if they were discussing the daily weather. âAnd what I canât clean up, my creatures eat.â Greg and the hellhounds were always thrilled to get a fresh snack of sinew and bone. âSo no- I donât really have any reason to care about the morgue and what the stuff in it is called.âÂ
Nell scrolled through the data sheâd just opened, looking for anything familiar as the names of the deceased drifted before her. Finally, she came to a pause. âItâs here.â Her voice had dropped its previous teasing nature, her features morose as she read the drawer number aloud. â38B. Thatâs the one we need.â
Marley looked back over her shoulder at Nell as she worked on the computer. Marley had computer skills but wasnât a hacker by any means. She never really needed to be. âYou and your creatures, huh?â She examined one of the small centrifuges that looked to be for testing blood and wondered if this was what Kavanagh had put Erinâsâ or fake Erinâsâ blood in to find her DNA. Or if sheâd used something else. Like hair or saliva. They did have the head after all. Marley felt sick for a moment, looking away and coming back over to Nell. âYou never did say what kind of magic you do? You know my cards, kinda feel like I should know yours,â she pointed out,. But she paused again when Nell found what they were looking for. 38B. Marley went over to the assigned drawer and stared at it. Could she do it? Could she face it? If Kavanagh was wrong and it was Erinâs body, would she be able to hold it together? She didnât really think so.
Slowly, Marley reached up and pulled the door handle, listening to it click. It opened easily and the drawer inside slid out a bit. The body on it was covered in a white sheet and Marley glanced over at Nell. âWellâŠâ she swallowed, âhere goes nothing.â
âMy creatures,â Nell repeated with a touch of pride as the corners of her lips turned upwards. âLike the boggarts. But bigger. Much bigger, and with sharper teeth and claws.â There was no reason to keep the sort of magic she did a secret from Marley. There was little she kept secret about her magic these days anyway. âWell if summoning creatures from thin air wasnât enough of a hint- I do summoning. And if the blood on the snow wasnât enough of another hint, I do blood magic too.âÂ
The sight of the metal door and the number on it kicked the humor from Nell like air being beat from her lungs. Her stomach could feel a familiar dread building within it, her heart rate beginning to spike as her mind began to blur around the edges. She still remembered what itâd been like to drag Beaâs corpse along the forest floor. To pull Adamâs barely living body across the hellscape. The sickening bump of Beaâs head against the glass of the jar Montgomery had kept her in. Nellâs sister, Luce, had vomited when she saw it. Marley had already seen Erinâs body, but she didnât need to be the one to move that white sheet. That wasnât a weight the mara needed to remember for the rest of her life, as Nell remembered her own weights. So even though every cell in her body shied away from the action, she raised a small hand to pull back the cover.Â
It was Erin. Even though the test results said it wasnât, that didnât change the fact that the face resting peacefully on the metal slab was Erinâs. But as Nell looked longer, her body tensed, and the hair grew longerâŠdarker. She felt like she was floating somewhere slightly above her skin as the features began to look more like her motherâs, more like Beaâs. There was that ugly line of nothing that separated body from head. Nothing where her sisterâs neck should be.
Marley looked at the body and it was still Erinâs, but the tag said âUnidentifiedâ. She read it over and over. âIncompatible DNAâ. It didnât make sense. It didnât make sense. Marley blinked and rubbed her eyes and shook her head and tried to make the body not be Erin but it was. It was. She didnât know how to explain it. It was right there on the chart. Erinâs DNA in the CODIS from when sheâd been arrested, and then the bodyâs DNA. They were different. Completely different. Marley felt a sudden spike in fear, and her head whipped over to look at Nell, who now was paler than the sheet over the body. Marley forced herself to snap out of itâ someone needed her right now, and if she couldnât be there for Erin, she could be there for the people who cared about her instead. âHey, woahâ you good? I-is this too much? We can put the body back,â she said, reaching tentatively for Nell.
Marleyâs voice sounded as if it was coming through layers of water, garbled and far off as the smell- the taste of Beaâs blood filled Nellâs mouth. She could hear the wet thud of her sisterâs head falling to the ground, another sound that would play in her mind until the day she died. It should have been her. It was supposed to be her, but now Bea was dead andâÂ
Nell jerked away when Marleyâs hand entered her field of vision, hissing in defense as her eyes were forced away from the body to the new threat. She moved like a cornered animal, her magic pulsing inside her veins and ready to act against this enemy. Too much steel, too much of the bright silver that had coated Erinâs basement where Nell had held her dead sisterâs hand, and tried to force herself to feel something- anything other than the gaping void inside her chest. A vial of blood saved for testing shattered somewhere nearby, and the splatter of its contents against her cheek was both a curse and a blessing. Blood. Her sisterâs blood drenched all over herâŠbut that wasnât her sisterâs blood on her face, was it? In an often-used movement, Nell brought a drop of the blood to her lips, giving it a taste as the magic that was dying to break loose ran over it. Male. Mid-forties. Human without a trace of magic in his blood. Not Bea.Â
It was enough to give Nell a single moment of clarity, to recognize the face of Marley that was staring at her. There was no easy way to explain her reaction, so she did her best to play it off, already ashamed of what had just happened. âI was- my sister had her head cut off once.â An attempt at a shrug pulled on her shoulders, the ones that still felt disconnected from her arms. âIâŠforgot for a second.â Her feet shifted beneath her, embarrassed to admit to the strange comings and goings of memories that sometimes plagued her during the waking hours. âItâs fine. Itâs alright.â
Marley pulled back the second the witch jerked. She might notâve known a lot about magic, but she knew that a volatile spellcaster could mean disaster. She stayed on the other side of the drawer as Nell seemed to withdraw into herself, shrinking and looking much like a wounded, scared animal. Fear and pain writhing under the surface of her skin, a fear so potent Marley almost felt sorry she could feel it, taste it. She blinked and looked away, making sure her sunglasses were on and that her eyes didnât try to take advantage of the situation, even though her muscles itched to. She hadnât fed in a while and that was her problem to deal with. She wouldnât take advantage of someone like this just for a quick snack.Â
The vial shattering pulled Marleyâs attention up and she watched as it dripped down Nellâs face, watched as the witch dabbed her finger in it and brought it to her lips. Humans on their own were strange, but thisâ this was different. Nell was so much more than Marley had imagined. So much darker. Maybe that was why she felt able to turn to her in this time. She recognized a darkness in her that Marley had herself.Â
The symptoms of PTSD were clear enough, but if it were reversed, if Marley were the one pressed up against a wall with blood on her face and an empty stare, she wouldnât want anyone to point it out. So she didnât say anything. âBea, right?â she asked quietly, setting the cloth back over the head to cover it up, so that it was just the body exposed, lying prone on a cold, metal slab. It still had the same scars as Erin, the little freckles on her shoulders, the mole on her collarbone. She had known Bea only a little while, but in that time, the older witch hadnât shirked about in telling Marley exactly what happened to her. Beheading and all. Marley looked over at Nell. âYou knowâŠSâokay to not be okay,â she mumbled, trying to remember words that Erin had once told her. She was allowed to grieve. They were allowed to grieve. âI justâŠcanât figure this out. The boy looks exactly like her but the CODIS has never been wrong. So what is it? Who is it?â
Annoyance flickered through Nell as she realized sheâd likely destroyed something Regan would most likely notice was missing when she returned to the morgue. Oh well. Sheâd clean up the mess and hope that the medical examiner didnât look that closely into one missing vial. StillâŠit was messier than Nell would have liked. Raising a hand, she siphoned the blood off her face with her magic, lowering it into a random and nearby glass. Beaâs name from Marley nearly caused her hackles to rise again before she reminded herself that no one she knew was lying in this morgue. Not yet, at least. The witchâs nails dug into her palm until it hurt, and Nell used the pain in an attempt to try and center herself, to focus on something that wasnât the memories threatening to rise to the surface once more.
âBea told you?â Or had Marley simply gotten used to the daily tragedies of White Crest? âBut yeah- thatâs the one,â Nell finished with a forceful chuckle. âSheâs fine now. Obviously.â Or as fine as someone could be after being murdered and brought back to life. Sâokay to not be okay. The words bounced around Nellâs mind, and she couldnât decide where she landed on them, preferring not to think too closely on such things. âDonât really have time for that right now,â she said in a way that wasnât unkind. Nell wasnât sure whether she meant that a morgue wasnât the best place for a conversation like that, or if she simply couldnât stand still long enough for her problems to catch up with her. âButâŠthanks.âÂ
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Her shoulders rolled as she tried to dispel more of the haze that surrounded her mind, and focus on the questions Marley was asking. Against her better judgment, Nell stepped closer to the body, grateful that she didnât have to look at Erinâs face any more. She waved her hands over it, letting her magic run over the corpse as she scanned for anything out of the ordinary. A flicker of magic answered her, and Nellâs brows shot up in intrigue. âThereâs magic- hold on.â Another few, long moments of searching with her own magic, and she had an answer. âItâs a glamour,â she breathed, another piece of relief sliding into place while the evidence against Erin being dead continued to stack up. Her hands looked for where the magic was most concentrated, and before she could think better of it she drew a dagger from a hidden sheath, sliding the sheet back a little until just the bodyâs leg was revealed.Â
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With careful movements, she slid the blade between bone and skin, doing her best not to disturb whatever laid beneath. The flesh flapped back with a sticky sound, and Nellâs jaw tightened at what she found. âA sigil,â she explained while pointing to the symbol that had been carved into the bone of the shin. âIf I just-â The tip of the knife slashed a line through the center of the sigil, and the magic fell. âPull back the top again.â
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Marley knew that mindset all too well, too. There was never enough time to just stop and not be okay, because when you were, you fell apart. The world fell apart for you, but no one else. They all just kept going and you get left behind. Marley knew that all too well. Sheâd been left behind. But the possibility of it not being true grew more with Nellâs declaration of magic and Marleyâs brows went up. She wasnât going to pretend that she knew how Nell was certain, but she trusted the young spellcaster enough to know she wouldnât lie about something like this. And then she was tugging back the sheet and sticking her knife into the leg and Marley couldnât help but watch with intrigue. Sheâd always been drawn to the macabre. Children and parents alike had scolded her for it.Â
When the witch found what she needed, Marley eagerly pulled the sheet back. There was no hesitation, it had to be trueâ and there, right before her eyes, was a body she didnât recognize. Even the head was different. âItâs not Erin,â she said on a breath, âitâs not her.â Finally lifting her gaze to meet Nellâs eyes. âErinâs still alive.â
[pm] Do you know anything about demon cats? Or demons that look like cats? And cause bad luck?
[pm] This isnât about Taki, is it? Do you mean an actual demon cat? Whereâd you hear about this? Did you come across it?
bearingwitnessâ:
[pm]
I did. I got my face clawed. Donât get your face clawed.Â
because a bearâs limbs, muzzle, and everything are oriented totally different.Â
 MeâŠ.being blind was cute?Â
Uh no, we lived as bears, we didnât have cameras or nothing.Â
Big, uh not really. I take what I need most of the time.Â
[pm] I wonât get my faced clawed because Iâm too pretty to get my face clawed. đ€ But I still wanna hear the joke
I mean theyâre still in the nose area...arenât they? And the legs and arm-like things are near the same places?
Itâs cute because you were little and a baby with really cute little ears and paws and stuff.Â
Thatâs fair. Sad that I donât get to see baby bear Roy pictures. But fair.
Okay- Iâll just grab a few things and then be over.
wickedmiloâ:
[pm] Obviously I amÂ
[pm] Another question
[pm] This is why nobody likes you
[pm] Yeah White Crest is basically that place where nothing happy can survive in peace (((((:
Another ignoring of a questionÂ
Because theyâre jealous of my massive dong? Thatâs okay, not everyone can be as lucky as me.
stolensirenâ:
Thatâs perfect. The people will definitely rise with this as their rallying cry.
I can hear them singing in the streets already